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Friday, 31 August 2012

August Round Up

It's funny but until I put together my pic monkey collage I would have honestly said that August was another non-productive month like July. However, it hasn't been. It seems that I have been inspired by lots of other quilters out there this month.Even though I have kind of fallen off the Zakka Style Sew Along bullet train, I have made 4 of the projects this month. Two of the Zakka projects, the elephant bookmark and delightful linen bag, were perfect for my mum's 78th birthday. She loves elephants and I am trying to encourage her to buy either an ipad or a kindle for herself to put in the DL bag.Fran got the sugar cookie sack to put with her tea set.The other ZSSA project, the bakery basket, was perfect for my baking friend Marieka of Bespoke Bites. It's not her birthday but I love her to send things for just being her.It was also the Practically Paper Piecing Blog Hop at this month and my project was very time consuming. I lost 5 days to a dreadful flu that had me bedridden and so I had to quickly make the trees and leftover houses in 2 days before I delivered a patchwork talk, illustrating my life, to 40 ladies at a Friday night dinner.The back of the Neighbourhood Playmat was inspired by Kristy's Quiet PlayLEGO Playmat for her son's birthday. Juliet's Tartan Kiwi paper pieced Art Folder and Rachel's Stitched in ColorNursery Versery mini-quilt were the inspiration for my own Nursery Versery Art Folder.

Oh my Fiona, when you put them all together it seems so much - did you really do all that - and with flu in the middle? You are awesome. I tend to think more of the things I want to do but I might just take some inspiration from you and look back at all I've done.xx

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I am a stay-at-home mum to Duncan 9, Tristan 7 and Frances 5. We live on a 5 acre property on the Alstonville Plateau of the Northern Rivers. I like to garden, raise chickens and sew. And I abhor injustice.